Patients may better tolerate video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), but there are concerns about the potential for missing lymph node metastases. Over a recent 4-year study period, VATS lobectomy was ...

A thoracotomy is when a surgeon goes between your ribs to get to your heart, lungs, or esophagus to diagnose or treat an illness. It's a major operation, and doctors usually don’t use it if something ...

MASSIVE intrapleural hemorrhage is a rare but frequently fatal complication of spontaneous pneumothorax for which surgical treatment has only recently been utilized. This article summarizes published ...

The emergency department (ED) thoracotomy for traumatic arrest is one of the smost dramatic procedures in emergency medicine. It is the procedure that every emergency medicine trainee looks forward to ...

Retrospective analysis of resuscitative thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest covered records from 1999 to 2019 from London's Air Ambulance. People with cardiac tamponade were more likely to ...

Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation Versus Observation in Radically Treated Stage III Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomized Phase III NVALT-11/DLCRG-02 Study In 2002, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons ...

Prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy was feasible for traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) in a mature, physician-led, urban system and was associated with improved survival, particularly when performed ...

Researchers from an international collaborative team have found that prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is feasible ...

A 22-year-old woman presented with paraplegia following a left-sided thoracotomy. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a dorsal epidural mass at the level of T6. The patient underwent an emergency T6/7 ...

WEST CHESTER, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtriCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC), a leading innovator in technologies for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation (Afib) and left atrial appendage management, ...

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